Posts by Sharon Chisholm

Sharon Chisholm

Sharon Chisholm is an award-winning coach, mental health advocate, writer and speaker living in Australia. She works with female entrepreneurs based all over the world, helping them with a variety of challenges from low confidence and self-esteem, through to mind health issues such as anxiety and depression. Sharon writes for a number of publications and regularly speaks about her own lived experience with mental illness as well as hosting her own podcast called the "Mental as Anything Podcast". She also facilitates workshops on mental health in the workplace and advises government bodies on how they can better support the small business owner.

My name is Sharon Chisholm, I live in Australia and I am a mind health coach, advocate, writer and speaker. Fourteen years ago, at the age of 32, I moved from England to Australia. A year later I was married with a new baby and my life was completely different. When my daughter was a year old, I was diagnosed with clinical depression. It’s been a very long rollercoaster journey of ups and downs since then, culminating in me being re-diagnosed last year with bipolar disorder. The new diagnosis was the missing piece of the puzzle and explained so much of my misunderstood behavioral patterns over the years. I’m now doing much better and am managing my life and my health well on a day to day basis. RELATED: Managing Your Business When Dealing with a Personal Crisis For me personally, medication has always been the starting point, because without it